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TASHKENT (TCA) — Kicking off his tour of three Central Asian countries at its very heart, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Miroslav Lajčák, on May 20 opened the new OSCE premises in Uzbekistan.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on May 20 agreed to boost cooperation between the two countries in various fields and further align their development strategies, Xinhua news agency reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan say three prison guards and 29 inmates, including several opposition members, have been killed in a riot that broke out in a maximum-security prison, the second deadly prison clash to hit the country in the last six months, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On May 17, the Uzbek city of Navoi hosted the first Uzbekistan–American–Canadian business forum. The event, organized by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in the United States and Canada, together with Navoi regional khokimiyat (administration), was attended by a delegation of the state of Mississippi led by Governor Phil Bryant, members of American–Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce, businessmen from Texas, Florida, Nebraska, representatives of the Eximbank of the United States, USAID, the US diplomatic mission in Tashkent and others, the Jahon information agency reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Third annual Kazakhstan Global Investment Roundtable (KGIR-2019) chaired by the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin was held in Nur-Sultan on May 17.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov says that his country has become a wheat-exporting nation, according to state media, amid reports that the local population is facing severe food shortages, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reported.
